EAN: 9783319451251

THE PUBLIC LIFE OF AUSTRALIAN MULTICULTURALISM ...

This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population
flows and intensifying cultural diversity within their borders  multicultural policy and
approaches have never been more important. The author takes an extended case study approach 
examining Australia's experiments with pragmatic forms of multiculturalism and multicultural
policy since the early 1970s up to the present. The Public Life of Australian Multiculturalism
challenges some larger assumptions about multiculturalism - either that it undermines national
identity or that it is  and should strive to be  a post-national approach to identity issues.
Instead  it argues that framing multiculturalism by inclusive national identity has been the
key to multiculturalism's continuity and general success in Australia. The book also directly
challenges the claim that we have entered a post-multicultural world  making a case instead for
the continuing relevance of pragmatic approaches to multiculturalism. Students and scholars
researching in sociology  politics  migration  multiculturalism  ethnic and racial studies 
nationalism  and identity studies will find this study of interest.

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